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Sep. 7th, 2004 10:29 pmNova and Frontline had pieces tonight on the World Trade Towers. Nova did a story on the civil engineering study, and Frontline covered the political process for the design of the new Ground Zero master plan and the "Freedom Tower".
I saw the 9/11 disaster unfolding on CNN the day it happened. I was unemployed, and there was nothing to pull me away from the days of detailed coverage. My job search basically was put on hold for a month because nobody was doing 'business as usual'. At the time, I recall it being surreal and not having a strong emotional response to the images. Yet watching the coverage now is much harder to do. Probably because we knew so little of what was really going on inside those towers at the time on 9/11/01 and now we have the gory details for 3000 shattered ( lives... )
I saw the 9/11 disaster unfolding on CNN the day it happened. I was unemployed, and there was nothing to pull me away from the days of detailed coverage. My job search basically was put on hold for a month because nobody was doing 'business as usual'. At the time, I recall it being surreal and not having a strong emotional response to the images. Yet watching the coverage now is much harder to do. Probably because we knew so little of what was really going on inside those towers at the time on 9/11/01 and now we have the gory details for 3000 shattered ( lives... )